Emerging Statistical Challenges and Methods For Analysis of Massive Genomic Data in Complex Human Disease Studies
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago
Monday Jun 23, 2014 09:05 - 09:39
GWAS to WGAS-A Difficult Permutation
Yun Li, University of North Carolina
Monday Jun 23, 2014 09:41 - 10:19
Design of Sequencing-Based Studies
Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
Monday Jun 23, 2014 11:20 - 11:52
A Collapsing Method Based on Mixed-Effect Modeling for Rare CNV Analysis
Liming Liang, Harvard University
Monday Jun 23, 2014 14:05 - 14:37
Effective Adjustment of Differential Cell Populations in Epigenome-Wide Association Studies
Xihong Lin, Harvard University
Monday Jun 23, 2014 15:36 - 16:00
Integrative Mediation Analysis of Genetic and Genomic Data in Genetic Association Studies
Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia University
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 08:35 - 09:06
Empirical Bayes Scan Statistics for Detecting Clusters of Disease Risk Variants in Genetic Studies
Fabrice Larribe, UQAM
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 09:09 - 09:35
Mapping Rare Variants by the Coalescent
Lisa Strug, The University of Toronto
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 09:40 - 10:09
Case-Control Genetic Association Studies with Next-Generation Sequence Data and External Controls: The Robust Variance Score Statistic
Timothy Thornton, University of Washington
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 10:39 - 11:12
Mixed-Model Association Mapping in Admixed Populations
Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 11:17 - 11:43
Known and Unknown Confounders in Genetic Studies
Ian Barnett, Harvard University
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 11:44 - 12:21
The generalized higher criticism for testing SNP sets in genetic association studies
Steve Horvath, University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 13:23 - 13:59
Empirical evaluation of prediction- and correlation network methods applied to genomic data
Nancy Cox, University of Chicago
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 14:00 - 14:29
New approaches to large-scale data integration: Across-omics and across variant types
Heather Cordell, Newcastle University
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 15:02 - 15:38
Moving Forward from GWAS through Analysis of Multiple Data Types
Christopher Amos, Dartmouth College
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014 15:39 - 16:08
Characterizing SNPs Using Genomic Information
Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 09:10 - 09:51
Statistical Issues in Development and Evaluation of Genetic Risk Prediction Models
Jessica Minnier, Oregon Health and Science University
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 09:52 - 10:19
Risk Classification with an Adaptive Naïve Bayes Kernel Machine Model
Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 10:20 - 10:46
Building a Classification Model Based on miRNA Data
John Witte, University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 11:10 - 11:41
Methods for Evaluating Pleiotropy
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 11:43 - 12:13
Statistical Methods to Prioritize GWAS Results by Integrating Pleiotropy and Annotation
Shelley Bull, University of Toronto
Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 12:16 - 12:43
Sampling Strategies in Two-Stage Regional Fine Mapping of a Quantitative Trait
Sebastian Zöllner, University of Michigan
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 08:38 - 09:13
Robust and powerful sibpair test for rare variant association
Michael Epstein, EMORY UNIVERSITY
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 09:15 - 09:34
Statistical Approaches for Rare-Variant Testing in Affected Sibships
Andrew Allen, Duke University
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 09:40 - 10:06
Utilizing Population Controls in Rare-Variant Case-Parent Association Tests
Janet Sinsheimer, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 10:37 - 11:05
Screening for Intergenerational Genetic Effects
Michael Wu, University of North Carolina
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 11:13 - 11:49
Gene and Region Based Testing of Gene-Gene Interactions for Quantitative Traits with the SNP-Set Kernel Interaction Test (SKIT)’
Laurent Briollais, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Inst.
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 11:55 - 12:28
Detection of Gene by Gene and Gene by Environment Interactions in GWAS through Bayesian Graphical Models
Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 13:37 - 14:15
The role of environmental heterogeneity in meta-analysis of gene-environment interactions
Ellen Wijsman, University of Washington
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 14:17 - 14:55
Genotype Imputation from Sequence Data in Pedigrees: Rare and Common Variants in Complex Traits
Daniel Schaid, Mayo Clinic
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 15:14 - 15:54
Whole-Exome Sequence Scan in Pedigrees and Controls: Applications and Co-Segregation Methods
Duncan Thomas, University of Southern California
Thursday Jun 26, 2014 15:55 - 16:48
Approaches to modeling precursor lesions in cancer etiology: applications to testicular and colorectal cancers
